Weequahic

Weequahic is an unincorporated communiry and neighborhood within the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey. Its name means "head of the cove" in Lenape, and it was largely farmland until the late nineteenth century, after which it became a middle-class and non-industrial neighborhood. Until the late 1960s, it was a largely middle-class Jewish neighborhood with several synagogues, yeshivas, and Jewish restaurants, but the post-World War II growth of suburbs and the influx of African-Americans changed the area's demographics. The construction of Interstate 78 and real estate blockbusting led to Weequahic experiencing white flight and becoming a black neighborhood.